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CPT 97813

Excluded from PFS

97813 · PFS Q1 2013 · Historical

No national PFS rate in Q1 2013

Status N: non-covered. Medicare covers no part of this service, so the PFS produces no payment amount.

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Not at a published national rate. CPT 97813 carries status N (non-covered) in the Q1 2013 release. Medicare covers no part of this service. Treat the blank amount as unpriced, not as $0.

PFS status evidence

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Code
97813
Release
Q1 2013, revision 1
Result
Excluded from PFS

Citations

  • Establishes the PFS status (N) and the resulting pathway for this code: excluded from pfs.

    Physician relative value file (PPRRVU)

    Q1 2013 · revision 1

    Latest revision of this release

    Release period: January 1 – March 31, 2013

    This PFS record alone does not establish a $0 allowance or a coverage determination. Any amount from another schedule needs its own evidence.

    Record details PPRRVU13.csv in rvu13a.zip (row 15,398)
    hcpcs (col 1)
    97813
    modifier (col 2)
    blank
    status_code (col 4)
    N

    SHA-256: a84cdae37ebaadbaf680d8ea6051f442d6e61fb44436ca61dc94a43051d877e8

    Original source file

Compact facts

Why is there no national PFS amount for 97813?

Its status indicator is N (non-covered). Medicare covers no part of this service. Status N: non-covered. Medicare covers no part of this service, so the PFS produces no payment amount.

Payment considerations Copy link

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Other payment indicators (10)

Facility/non-facility: Not determined, Professional/technical component: Does not apply, Bilateral adjustment: Does not apply, Multiple-procedure reduction: Does not apply, Assistant/co-surgeon treatment: Does not apply, Global surgery: Does not apply, NCCI same-day edits: Not determined, MUE behavior: Not determined, Other fee-schedule routing: Does not apply, Contractor pricing: Does not apply.

Payment rules

Global period: what 97813's fee already covers Copy link

XXX Does not apply

The global surgery concept does not apply to this code.

Can you bill it with another code? Copy link

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Common payment questions Copy link

Why would a Medicare claim for 97813 be denied or paid less?

These come from CMS indicators on this page, not general billing advice.

  • Its status indicator is N (non-covered)—Medicare covers no part of this service. See status indicators

Payer-specific coverage and documentation rules live outside these files, so a claim that clears every check here can still be denied on other grounds.

History

Rate history by release Copy link

National non-facility amount for 97813 across quarterly releases. +33.7% increase since Q2 2020 · high $56.45 in Q1 2026

$56 $50 $44 $38 $32 Q2 2020 · $42.22 Q3 2020 · $42.22 (0.0%) Q4 2020 · $42.22 (0.0%) Q1 2021 · $42.22 (0.0%) Q2 2021 · $42.22 (0.0%) Q3 2021 · $42.22 (0.0%) Q4 2021 · $42.22 (0.0%) Q1 2022 · $47.06 (+11.5%) Q2 2022 · $47.06 (0.0%) Q3 2022 · $47.06 (0.0%) Q4 2022 · $47.06 (0.0%) Q1 2023 · $45.75 (-2.8%) Q2 2023 · $45.75 (0.0%) Q3 2023 · $45.75 (0.0%) Q4 2023 · $45.75 (0.0%) Q1 2024 · $44.53 (-2.7%) Q1 2024 · $45.27 (+1.7%) Q2 2024 · $45.27 (0.0%) Q3 2024 · $45.27 (0.0%) Q4 2024 · $45.27 (0.0%) Q1 2025 · $51.43 (+13.6%) Q2 2025 · $51.43 (0.0%) Q3 2025 · $51.43 (0.0%) Q4 2025 · $51.43 (0.0%) Q1 2026 · $56.45 (+9.8%) Q2 2026 · $56.45 (0.0%) Q3 2026 · $56.45 (0.0%) Q4 2026 · $56.45 (0.0%) Q1 2013 Q3 2016 Q2 2019 Q4 2021 Q2 2024 Q4 2026
Non-facility Facility
Release Status Non-facility Facility
Q4 2026 takes effect Oct 1, 2026 A $56.45 (0.0% no change ) $33.40 (0.0% no change )
When does this rate change?

CMS publishes a fee schedule release every quarter (January, April, July, October), and each is versioned here. See what changed each release, or get an email when a new release moves rates.

The 97813 rate last moved in Q1 2026. See its rate history.

Sources: CMS Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Relative Value Files.

Usage & related

How often 97813 is billed Copy link

Across Original Medicare in CY2024, 97813 ranked #1,953 of the 7,879 CPT codes billed to Medicare that year, by patients served or total allowed dollars. It repeats: a patient billed for it in 2024 was billed 6.2 times on average that year.

Beneficiaries
11,264
Office + facility patients combined
Services
69,581
Times it was billed
Allowed
$3.2M
Total Medicare allowed dollars

2024 Medicare fee-for-service national totals. They exclude Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and commercial volume, so real-world use runs higher. This is a calendar-year snapshot from the CMS Physician & Other Practitioners dataset, on a different cycle from the Q1 2013 fee schedule above.

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Source & method

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This page uses CMS's Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Q1 2013 release (effective January 2013). National baselines use GPCI 1.000 and exclude sequestration. Status and payment instructions determine whether a national amount is established; blank RVUs stay blank. Releases are immutable: historical evidence remains tied to the specified release. Our methodology covers the depth: sourcing, parsing, versioning, and how we cross-check claims before they ship.

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Cite this rate

This citation identifies the source release, so its evidence remains reproducible after a newer release lands.

CPT 97813 National PFS baseline: No national PFS rate (Q1 2013; participating; whole service; GPCI 1.000; sequestration excluded). Localis. https://localishealth.com/cpt/97813/2013/A